Stock or Not Stock?

[Ara (Crow)]

When your working on a graphic do you stock, or just use whatever works?

I'm the kind to use stock, and follow all the rules, just to be more safe when putting stuff on my sites. Though it usually means going through hours of manipulating to get what I wanted.

Do you actually use stock is the question.

[Kami]

It depends entirely on what i'm doing. and what do you mean by stock, anyway? like an actual stock photo? i see a lot of new designers referring to renders/transparent .png's as 'stock', so i'm just curious. stock images are nice for certain tags or lp's, but for other tags or projects, a render is better, or better to just pentool the whole thing.

edit1;; or brushes / typography. you can make some amazing things using nothing but brushes, fonts, and colouration techniques.

edit2;; moving to GDD.

[Anselm]

Assuming you mean stock photos, I'll use them for things like sigs, but web layouts only for example content really (or real content )

[dude]

Will always use stocks in tags rather than renders - the background of an image is just as useful as the character itself and is a much better starting point than blank white. Also often use stocks for background textures and stuff in web design or as anselm said for content.